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The reference to European art and history and literature is overt: His wobbly trees, daubed skies and unnatural lights pay homage to the postimpressionist art movement in France.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2021

She smiles when I mention the French postimpressionist.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2016

Mr. Taborn, an unusually matter-of-fact virtuoso, teases out structural affinities among free jazz, postimpressionist classical and electronic music, forging something uniquely his own.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2011

The greatest postimpressionist, C�zanne, turned the brilliant palette of impressionism into a kind of three-dimensional mosaic, a building material from which he built a new illusion of space.

From Time Magazine Archive

These and other artists of the interwar period were greatly influenced by the impressionist and postimpressionist painters in Paris and Munich, where they studied.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.